And now we've gotten a few books, countless articles another book on the way AND HIS OWN DAMN GAME coming out soon! Can't wait to look back on this after it's success
Some Scandinavians have epicanthic folds as well. It's either because of relationships with Siberian nomads or an adaptation to living in the crazy coastal winds in places like Norway.
I love how intense this child is. His family has been slaughtered, his lands have been taken by an enemy, and his nearest potential allies are 2 weeks travel through dangerous lands. Without hesitation he's ready to ride out for vengeance, even though he's been held in terrible conditions.
Ah yes, that golden 'this is now our base -- let's do it up' moment. My players once stole an entire water temple because they wanted a swimming pool for their base. Good times. =D
I was a DM for a regular game for ~20 years. I burned out. Now I'm playing in a game run by one of my former players who is getting a lot of help from your "Running the Game" series. I'm SO happy to get to play again, but these campaign diaries get me itchy to DM again. You, sir, are indeed, a river to your people. In more ways than you know.
I just finished binge watching this playlist over the last few days. I love the campaign stories, and you have such great advice!! Can't wait to catch up with the map building too!
D&D stories are almost always awesome. This channel really makes me miss playing. I essentially grew up on D&D. I know Faerun's geography better than my own country's. Maybe over the summer I'll give it another shot, though there's no one I personally know who I could play with. Maybe I'll see if I can join groups online over virtual tabletop programs.
Really enjoying this series of videos Matt. You're a great speaker. I'm looking forward to hearing more about how you build your worlds. I'm looking to do something similar with a semi-historic fantasy setting with magic returning to post Arthurian Britain. These videos have given me some great ideas on how to go about changing some published works to fit that setting. Thanks.
I love listening to these. I feel like I learn a lot about DMing and get a lot of ideas for things I want to try in my campaign. I'll be there this Sunday.
Loving your Channel. I've only played DnD once in high school, but I find your channel incredibly interesting. I just finished the whole series up to this point. You're a great story teller and that makes it very fun to hear about your DnD adventures and how you think about the aspects of being a DM. Looking forward to more videos.
Hey Mat, you should publish this campaign. I've been watching and it feels like a sweet campaign world, and a most excellent series of adventures. I'd buy that!
Just watching this series now. Interesting to hear seeds of the S&F book in this video and the earlier one with the Shield leading to a pledge of fealty.
Matthew Colville love your vids, lots of great advise I wanted to thank you for that, keep up the great work! I am a long time GM been running for years, my group and I play every Thursday night, alot of the advise you give I have either been doing already, and or tryout in my games.
I let my group keep Amber Castle once they had broken the curse. That was a pretty engaging four sessions, running them through a classic module (I know not everyone loves it, but I do) and has lead to some great things in the game.
I just received your Dune book as a birthday present. I haven't had an opportunity to look at it yet, and to be honest I think my wife is more excited I got it than I am, but I'm looking forward to it
So I've been running a version of your introductory adventure, and something pretty hilarious happened tonight. When the party was traipsing through the forest at night (all of them are darkvision-less humans, BTW), one didn't want to stop for the night because he was determined to catch up to the goblins. He and two others start to continue deeper into the pitch black woods. The other two characters feel like they'd be better off waiting until day when they can see where they're going. One of those two is a wizard and she casts Sleep on the other three to keep them from vanishing in the dark. Many laughs were had.
Awesome episode, I'd love love love to see your rules/supplements for building and maintaining a stronghold. As well as the different types of strongholds that there are. I hope you'll be able to upload them to the DMs Guild with your busy schedule.
Hey Matt! Halfway through "Priest", have to say, it's been a very good read, well worth the four dollars! The characters are all so interesting and distinct. Got to say, Vanora was just too adorable, I hope to see more of her and Heden, their interactions are just warming.
Is Zarok the Law Giver a nod to a particular 90s fantasy video game? Love this series by the way. I definitely feel like my DM skills have improved from watching this channel.
Hey Matt! Hoping to throw some encouragement your way, I'm a DM of 8 years (my how time flies) and have enjoyed listening to your videos while I prep my own campaigns. The tidbits I've picked up here have done more than the forums I've been reading for the past few years, so I encourage you to keep it up! My biggest question/request is about improvisation: How much 'prep' do you do for your improvisation? I know you say you always have names at the top of your head as a writer, but what if your players want to turn left when you have the right prepared? What do you have at your disposal that can help you 'render as you go'?
Human Thief? That's a rare breed. Usually they dedicate their early career to getting their grubby mits on an item that can give them darkvision. I even had a Rogue in, I think, Pathfinder, who had a cleric use Bestow Curse to put the "Ebon Eyes" spellblight on him: www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/variant-magic-rules/spellblights/#TOC-Ebon-Eyes The GM allowed that, since it was roughly equivalent in power to most normal curses, and would impair him during the daytime outdoors. In such situations, he usually pretended to be a blind beggar. So did this video have a followup? The next video that queued up was the start of The Chain?
Love your videos Matt! And I'm super looking forward to your map making video! I was wondering though if and when you think you might continue the history of D&D, One Fighter at a Time?
Hey matt, I finally finished watching all your 5e and dnd history videos in about 2-3 days, and I gotta say I love your stuff. I was wondering if you still had plans on building more fighters/doing more history videos though.
4:55 Some people still tune to channels in television. Also, arguably, every time you use WIFI you are "tuning into" your modem/router. Wifi routers have channels.
Hey Matthew I am running a adventure for a few of my friends and towards the end of a section some evil deity summons a massive portal into a town with witch undead tieflings come out of. I have figured out how I am gonna do most of this besides one big thing. How in the world do you handle invasions. I thought maybe I could have them try to go some discrete way to the deity's tower in the realm and destroy the portal from their. Your thoughts?
I think I'm going to be the only one that misses the old background, your studio is awesome and really fits it with the theme and also looks really professional, hope I get accustomed to the green screen
+Abel Sánchez No, I have no real intention to stick with the chromakey. For putting my face in a twitch stream it's fine, but I think the set is better for the videos.
As usual another Fantastic run down. I love hoe you run the realms politics, something i'm desperate to improve on as a gm. I can't wait to see your rules for strongholds, and my friend Matt is going to lose his mind when he finds out you worked on the Dune rpg,(don't be surprised if you receive a marriage proposal lol). I will also be there on the twitch stream on Sunday. Cannot wait until you start streaming your own games live, I seriously believe they would be as popular Critical Role. Peace.....Out!
I'm loving your series so far, I've been thinking about running a game D&D/Pathfinder (I'm a 3.x guy, and change frightens me) and your 'roll stats in order' really speaks to me as an acting/improv student. I've been a firm believer in open worlds and randomized encounters/reactions because I felt it gave the DM of the added fun of discovering the world alongside the players - but I really like the idea of the players discovering their characters too. Anyways, keep it up, I'll be commenting more throughout. The problem with finding great series as they're happening is that I have to wait until you post a new video, which sucks, as I am impatient, but I guess I do get a chance to be apart of the community so whatever.
+smashkeys Hopefully you wont have to wait long! Two videos a week! I have experienced only upsides with my method of stat generation. It seems to be a success.
+Matthew Colville Damn. I mean, I know you said you try to respond to each comment, but its been thirty minutes... *cut to Michelangelo's "thirty seconds" line*... Okay, my machine isn't as honed as yours, but I wanted to ask what your thoughts on randomness in campaigns was - you said you tailor your treasures a bit to shore up players' weaknesses, but as a new GM with an eye for chaos, *could* random tables work? Building off of what you said randomid rolls influencing player characters, I wanted to randomize the campaign, I feel like it would detach the GM from his or her vision of the story and allow the story to be *discovered*. Thoughts?
Sorry if you get asked this a lot, but do you have a pdf on the history of dwarf/elf/human interactions in your campaign? It sounds like something you've put a lot of thought into and I'd love to take a look at it. :)
Hey there Matt! I'm one of the first twenty or so viewers so I hope I catched this quickly. around 11:10 , you say they've cleared out Bedegar Keep- but if I recall correctly, that's the main town with the Wizard Tower and the knights of the black rose. Did you mean Broken Spire (Keep?), the place they found Edmund?
+TheHunterTheory Yeah you're detecting that I was really tired when I recorded this. :D It's been a long week and getting the green screen set up basically took all the time I had set aside to make the video, and then I still had the video to do. There are a lot of mistakes in this video, but I can't worry too much about that stuff, I have to assume I'm always getting better and remind myself that I've only been doing this for three months. A year or two from now I suspect the videos will be a lot more polished, just because I'll have done so many of them!
+Matthew Colville Of course - just clarifying! And not only are you getting better and better, you're totally killing it Matt. I'm running my first game with my friends this weekend *because of your videos*! Thanks for making them and putting so much time and effort into helping us all.
+Matthew Colville Eh it's fine. Doesn't have to be perfect. I love the green screen btw. I love the politics in your campaign. I'm invested as an observer!!
The Paladin that follows your friend, from his deference to him if he heard the kid being disrespectful would have probably spoken up. At least that is my take on it.
+Tovath Not true, the opposite, in fact. Sir Aarkizovar is a knight of the dragon phalanx. They believe intensely in the code of Chivalry and the Feudal system. If the Baron of Bedegar commanded Sir Aarkizovar, the Dragon Knight would obey. Nekodemus is not noble, not a lord, not even a knight. A lot of people, including people in the party, felt like the fact that Edmund is 13 should in some way affect how they treat him...but not Sir Aarkozovar. He doesn't care how old the kid is; he's the rightful Baron and therefore outranks everyone else in the party.
Loving the videos Matt, I'm running my first game as DM this weekend thanks to you. Would you ever consider making an audio book of your novels? Because I'd definitely buy them twice!
its so cute seeing him talk about strong holds and followers like its going to be some small thing for the dm's guild.
Literally had the hardback imported 🤣
And now we've gotten a few books, countless articles another book on the way AND HIS OWN DAMN GAME coming out soon! Can't wait to look back on this after it's success
"I may end up putting my stronghold rules online"
Hell yea Matt haha
Some Scandinavians have epicanthic folds as well. It's either because of relationships with Siberian nomads or an adaptation to living in the crazy coastal winds in places like Norway.
Aye, that's me
I love how intense this child is. His family has been slaughtered, his lands have been taken by an enemy, and his nearest potential allies are 2 weeks travel through dangerous lands. Without hesitation he's ready to ride out for vengeance, even though he's been held in terrible conditions.
Vengeance I’m sure he will absolutely carry out one day…
I love the expression "dubally-doo" it makes me smile every time, it describes it very well and is a fun word XD
+gedster666 I didn't like it at first, but it grew on me. Anything Matt says is hard to not like, he's just likable.
Ah yes, that golden 'this is now our base -- let's do it up' moment.
My players once stole an entire water temple because they wanted a swimming pool for their base. Good times. =D
In a campaign I play in, we all live in a dilapidated stolen pirate ship, permanently docked in port (because it can't leave).
Chris Longhurst Yeah, my party did that with the dilapidated manor house of a Medusa.
All your bases R belong to us!
Little did matt know, he would soon be making a book specifically about strongholds and followers
Instead of "stay tuned", how about "stay attuned"?
+unkoolaid26 I love it.
hey I like your outro, your hand gesture has a slightly different meaning where I'm from but I know how you mean it.
@@mcolville man how you speak and your voice is just the best and your story telling is fantastic
Oh my God yes, I so need help with this map ordeal. I feel like Grog trying to read
I would kill to be in one of Matt's campaigns
same
But at least we have his books!
you would kill if you were in one of Matt's campaigns:P
I was a DM for a regular game for ~20 years. I burned out. Now I'm playing in a game run by one of my former players who is getting a lot of help from your "Running the Game" series. I'm SO happy to get to play again, but these campaign diaries get me itchy to DM again. You, sir, are indeed, a river to your people. In more ways than you know.
I always wondered if Matt had any inkling that his throwaway line about stronghold rules would spawn what it did.
Green screen is great for twitch, but please keep using your office for normal videos. It's kinda cozy and friendly :)
3:11 "Ajax" His real name is Francis, he got Ajax from the soap brand!
ajax stand for asynchronous javascript and xml.
Have you guys not seen Deadpool?
I just finished binge watching this playlist over the last few days. I love the campaign stories, and you have such great advice!! Can't wait to catch up with the map building too!
Love hearing about the campaign story, it sounds like great fun. Thanks for the upload.
I would love an audio book of you reading your two books! I would pay money! Would anybody else?
This would be very cool!!
OHH GOD PLEASSEEE!
The rules for stronghold would be a bless upon my games ç_ç
Did you join the Kickstarter ?
D&D stories are almost always awesome. This channel really makes me miss playing. I essentially grew up on D&D. I know Faerun's geography better than my own country's.
Maybe over the summer I'll give it another shot, though there's no one I personally know who I could play with. Maybe I'll see if I can join groups online over virtual tabletop programs.
Did you get back into playing I hope?
Thank you so much for these videos. Its been over 20 years since i played D&D and now i can relive the adventures over again because of your recaps.
Really enjoying this series of videos Matt. You're a great speaker. I'm looking forward to hearing more about how you build your worlds. I'm looking to do something similar with a semi-historic fantasy setting with magic returning to post Arthurian Britain. These videos have given me some great ideas on how to go about changing some published works to fit that setting. Thanks.
I love listening to these. I feel like I learn a lot about DMing and get a lot of ideas for things I want to try in my campaign. I'll be there this Sunday.
It's amazing to see at 11:20 when Matt describes a "maybe" to fast forward to visualize a reality I don't think anyone expected
I like the greenscreen, the backdrop of Brokenspire Keep helped to focus where the party was and that it is in disrepair.
You are such a good storyteller! I wish the video kept going on.
+Vishwa Ramesh thats what ive been sayin
All i hear when he does his intro is "Hey everybody! Matt Kobold here!"
And thus, Matt the fast-talking kobold is born. Can't wait to use him in my next game.
Loving your Channel. I've only played DnD once in high school, but I find your channel incredibly interesting. I just finished the whole series up to this point. You're a great story teller and that makes it very fun to hear about your DnD adventures and how you think about the aspects of being a DM. Looking forward to more videos.
Hey Mat, you should publish this campaign. I've been watching and it feels like a sweet campaign world, and a most excellent series of adventures.
I'd buy that!
it's a publshed campaign Night Below adapted for his setting tho
The collaborative map sounds like great fun! And I really like these recap sessions a lot.
I find it really easy to write while listening to these :D
Ah man! I'm loving this story! Good stuff.
I love the another player not allied with the party angle. I've always wanted to try that at some point
Way to go with the green screen. Just picked up my copy of Priest!
Thanks! I hope you like it!
Just watching this series now. Interesting to hear seeds of the S&F book in this video and the earlier one with the Shield leading to a pledge of fealty.
Matthew Colville love your vids, lots of great advise I wanted to thank you for that, keep up the great work! I am a long time GM been running for years, my group and I play every Thursday night, alot of the advise you give I have either been doing already, and or tryout in my games.
Just finished your second book and loved it!! Can't wait to read the next one when it comes out.
+John Cleary Me too! :D
I let my group keep Amber Castle once they had broken the curse. That was a pretty engaging four sessions, running them through a classic module (I know not everyone loves it, but I do) and has lead to some great things in the game.
+matthewcolville three years later you made good on your promise for a fantasy grounds video 18:10
I just received your Dune book as a birthday present. I haven't had an opportunity to look at it yet, and to be honest I think my wife is more excited I got it than I am, but I'm looking forward to it
Man this is awesome! Wish I could play in one of your campaigns. Keep it up, Matt. This is all super helpful
Can't wait for the Sunday event!
Okay, I'm now totally hooked.
I love the Baron’s Heir.
So I've been running a version of your introductory adventure, and something pretty hilarious happened tonight. When the party was traipsing through the forest at night (all of them are darkvision-less humans, BTW), one didn't want to stop for the night because he was determined to catch up to the goblins. He and two others start to continue deeper into the pitch black woods. The other two characters feel like they'd be better off waiting until day when they can see where they're going. One of those two is a wizard and she casts Sleep on the other three to keep them from vanishing in the dark. Many laughs were had.
love the green screen, love this schedule. Thursday and Monday dm stuff. still trying to fix tablet to get kindle so I can help buy buying both
Awesome episode, I'd love love love to see your rules/supplements for building and maintaining a stronghold. As well as the different types of strongholds that there are. I hope you'll be able to upload them to the DMs Guild with your busy schedule.
Such great cliffhangers!
Hey Matt!
Halfway through "Priest", have to say, it's been a very good read, well worth the four dollars! The characters are all so interesting and distinct. Got to say, Vanora was just too adorable, I hope to see more of her and Heden, their interactions are just warming.
+Alexi Bosconovich Glad you like it! You will see more of Vanora in THIEF!
Wow you worked on the Dune game. Man I wished there had been more of it.
Is Zarok the Law Giver a nod to a particular 90s fantasy video game?
Love this series by the way. I definitely feel like my DM skills have improved from watching this channel.
Not as far as I know! I just made Zarok up.
Hey Matt! Hoping to throw some encouragement your way, I'm a DM of 8 years (my how time flies) and have enjoyed listening to your videos while I prep my own campaigns. The tidbits I've picked up here have done more than the forums I've been reading for the past few years, so I encourage you to keep it up! My biggest question/request is about improvisation: How much 'prep' do you do for your improvisation? I know you say you always have names at the top of your head as a writer, but what if your players want to turn left when you have the right prepared? What do you have at your disposal that can help you 'render as you go'?
He said “Doobly-doo” so many times, I’m going to hear it in my sleep!
Hey Matt! I've heard you mention it, but I'd love a video on running DMPCs, your thoughts on the matter, and some examples you've seen!
Holy crap. Over 500 likes and 0 dislikes. This is an anomaly.
Have not heard of "Last Unicorn Games" in years! They made a Star Track RPG that I thought was good.
Green screen looks awesome!
worked on dune?!?!? hook me up a out of print copy of that beauty. jk but you get cooler n cooler each video I progress through.
remember seeing a copy of it on your shelve one video snd thought damn luck guy.
It's very pretty, but I think build on a terrible system.
damn, gonna have to wake up at 8 to watch the stream. CURSE YOU TIME ZONES
love the green screen but i like the more natural "nerd office" vibe the room gives the videos on RUclips.
+ste3lwill Oh yeah I don't intend to deploy the chromakey outside of twitch chat and this one experiment.
Human Thief? That's a rare breed. Usually they dedicate their early career to getting their grubby mits on an item that can give them darkvision.
I even had a Rogue in, I think, Pathfinder, who had a cleric use Bestow Curse to put the "Ebon Eyes" spellblight on him:
www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/variant-magic-rules/spellblights/#TOC-Ebon-Eyes
The GM allowed that, since it was roughly equivalent in power to most normal curses, and would impair him during the daytime outdoors. In such situations, he usually pretended to be a blind beggar.
So did this video have a followup? The next video that queued up was the start of The Chain?
You've done a great job with the green screen. Far better then most.
At the "stay tuned" comment, all I could think was "Same Matt time, same Matt place."
This stuff is amazing!
"Ok kid, you're super annoying but good speech" made me fucking chuckle.
Superb.
"You tread heavily, but you speak the truth..."
Was that Old Ben Kenobi???
You've earned a sub from me Mr.Colville, much love coming at you from London!
+ChrisAndJoly Cheers from an inveterate anglophile!
awwww I wish I could be there for that Twitch video, but I dont wake up till mid day.
Love your videos Matt! And I'm super looking forward to your map making video!
I was wondering though if and when you think you might continue the history of D&D, One Fighter at a Time?
Hey matt, I finally finished watching all your 5e and dnd history videos in about 2-3 days, and I gotta say I love your stuff. I was wondering if you still had plans on building more fighters/doing more history videos though.
Getting some Lady Mormont vibes from that kid....
'Stay tuned' is like 'hang up the phone or 'roll the window down'
Lord Saxton... as in The Master's alias from Doctor Who?
I would absolutely love to be a player in one of your campaigns
4:55 Some people still tune to channels in television. Also, arguably, every time you use WIFI you are "tuning into" your modem/router. Wifi routers have channels.
Have you ever noticed how matt will smash together syllables attheend. He will talk normally at the start and then endreallyfast.
it would be sooooo cool if Turtle Rock Studios makes a dungeons and dragons game!!! I think they could definitely pull it off.
Looking forward to the Twitch chat!
Hey Matthew I am running a adventure for a few of my friends and towards the end of a section some evil deity summons a massive portal into a town with witch undead tieflings come out of. I have figured out how I am gonna do most of this besides one big thing. How in the world do you handle invasions. I thought maybe I could have them try to go some discrete way to the deity's tower in the realm and destroy the portal from their. Your thoughts?
He teleported in front of a castle! He's a witch!!
Stay Tuned is your catch phrase
Could you do an episode about building towns and cities?
Here's a countdown to the stream if anyone wants one: countingdownto.com/countdown/matt-colville-stream-countdown-clock
Nicodemus is such a cool name
I think I'm going to be the only one that misses the old background, your studio is awesome and really fits it with the theme and also looks really professional, hope I get accustomed to the green screen
+Abel Sánchez No, I have no real intention to stick with the chromakey. For putting my face in a twitch stream it's fine, but I think the set is better for the videos.
This Campaign Diary Series should realy get its own Playlist!
When will this go on?
Wow, Zack really is a pro.
I nominate "Stay tubed" as the RUclips version of "stay tuned".
As usual another Fantastic run down. I love hoe you run the realms politics, something i'm desperate to improve on as a gm.
I can't wait to see your rules for strongholds, and my friend Matt is going to lose his mind when he finds out you worked on the Dune rpg,(don't be surprised if you receive a marriage proposal lol). I will also be there on the twitch stream on Sunday. Cannot wait until you start streaming your own games live, I seriously believe they would be as popular Critical Role. Peace.....Out!
0:35 OMG he made that O_O matt you so cool.
You were on the Chippewa Valley Geek? *I* was on the Chippewa Valley Geek...whoa, small world...
The fold asians have are an adaptaion to sand storms.
I wish you retroactive luck from 2018
I'd actually really like to see how you run strongholds in your game because my players are coming up on a similar situation.
I'm loving your series so far, I've been thinking about running a game D&D/Pathfinder (I'm a 3.x guy, and change frightens me) and your 'roll stats in order' really speaks to me as an acting/improv student. I've been a firm believer in open worlds and randomized encounters/reactions because I felt it gave the DM of the added fun of discovering the world alongside the players - but I really like the idea of the players discovering their characters too.
Anyways, keep it up, I'll be commenting more throughout.
The problem with finding great series as they're happening is that I have to wait until you post a new video, which sucks, as I am impatient, but I guess I do get a chance to be apart of the community so whatever.
+smashkeys Hopefully you wont have to wait long! Two videos a week!
I have experienced only upsides with my method of stat generation. It seems to be a success.
+Matthew Colville Damn. I mean, I know you said you try to respond to each comment, but its been thirty minutes... *cut to Michelangelo's "thirty seconds" line*... Okay, my machine isn't as honed as yours, but I wanted to ask what your thoughts on randomness in campaigns was - you said you tailor your treasures a bit to shore up players' weaknesses, but as a new GM with an eye for chaos, *could* random tables work? Building off of what you said randomid rolls influencing player characters, I wanted to randomize the campaign, I feel like it would detach the GM from his or her vision of the story and allow the story to be *discovered*. Thoughts?
Sorry if you get asked this a lot, but do you have a pdf on the history of dwarf/elf/human interactions in your campaign? It sounds like something you've put a lot of thought into and I'd love to take a look at it. :)
+Natalie Freidin It's mostly all notes. There's this, but I suspect it's not what you're looking for.
squaremans.com/AgeOfChaos.pdf
the video that started the book
Hey there Matt! I'm one of the first twenty or so viewers so I hope I catched this quickly. around 11:10 , you say they've cleared out Bedegar Keep- but if I recall correctly, that's the main town with the Wizard Tower and the knights of the black rose. Did you mean Broken Spire (Keep?), the place they found Edmund?
+TheHunterTheory Yeah you're detecting that I was really tired when I recorded this. :D It's been a long week and getting the green screen set up basically took all the time I had set aside to make the video, and then I still had the video to do.
There are a lot of mistakes in this video, but I can't worry too much about that stuff, I have to assume I'm always getting better and remind myself that I've only been doing this for three months. A year or two from now I suspect the videos will be a lot more polished, just because I'll have done so many of them!
+Matthew Colville
Of course - just clarifying! And not only are you getting better and better, you're totally killing it Matt. I'm running my first game with my friends this weekend *because of your videos*! Thanks for making them and putting so much time and effort into helping us all.
+Matthew Colville Eh it's fine. Doesn't have to be perfect. I love the green screen btw. I love the politics in your campaign. I'm invested as an observer!!
The Paladin that follows your friend, from his deference to him if he heard the kid being disrespectful would have probably spoken up. At least that is my take on it.
+Tovath Not true, the opposite, in fact. Sir Aarkizovar is a knight of the dragon phalanx. They believe intensely in the code of Chivalry and the Feudal system.
If the Baron of Bedegar commanded Sir Aarkizovar, the Dragon Knight would obey. Nekodemus is not noble, not a lord, not even a knight.
A lot of people, including people in the party, felt like the fact that Edmund is 13 should in some way affect how they treat him...but not Sir Aarkozovar. He doesn't care how old the kid is; he's the rightful Baron and therefore outranks everyone else in the party.
Okay, I can see how if he follows a very dogmatic / strict code of chivalry he would innately be deferential to the local ruler.
Ah, the foreshadowing
Loving the videos Matt, I'm running my first game as DM this weekend thanks to you.
Would you ever consider making an audio book of your novels? Because I'd definitely buy them twice!